Hacker News: alfnor

New comment by alfnor in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

alfnor — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:42:36 +0000

New comment by alfnor in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

alfnor — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:38:34 +0000

MS Teams? Basically a bloated version of Skype.

New comment by alfnor in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

alfnor — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:35:45 +0000

CurseForge (Overwolf?) tried with Curse Voice before Discord even existed, but it never made it big. Probably because Discord started taking over when Skype fell off (i.e. Discord had good timing, Curse Voice did not).

New comment by alfnor in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

alfnor — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:25:11 +0000

The private servers I'm in always have a few people screen sharing whenever a voice chat is active. They're either sharing their gameplay (semi-privately, hence no Twitch) or they're co-watching movies. Oh and every so often, screen sharing is used for getting someone's opinion on image editing or a song in they're making. I've also given people remote tech support which is way easier to do when their screen is visible.

But it's worth noting that as an older Gen Z, this is just how people hang out nowadays, so we'll be watching anime together in the server until we fall asleep or whatever. That's why screen sharing isn't as useful as screenshots and video clips.

New comment by alfnor in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

alfnor — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:32:52 +0000

You think feds won't pay for bot accounts? Record labels already pay for botted streams, so I'm pretty sure MOSSAD would pay to bot Facebook. Hell, it already happens on X.

New comment by alfnor in "One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid"

alfnor — Thu, 23 May 2024 10:50:59 +0000

You're right. We get cheap knicknacks instead of cheap housing, electricity, water, food, etc.

New comment by alfnor in "One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid"

alfnor — Thu, 23 May 2024 10:49:30 +0000

Yet all they offer are ghost jobs at worst and hourly/gig work at best?

New comment by alfnor in "One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid"

alfnor — Thu, 23 May 2024 10:48:00 +0000

But isn't it more profitable to replace a high-cost job like a data analyst or logistics expert than 10-20 low-cost jobs like warehouse workers? Like the cost of the machines and the maintenance probably will end up costing more than humans.

New comment by alfnor in "Hackers found a way to open any of 3M hotel keycard locks"

alfnor — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 10:14:55 +0000

Not in Sweden.

New comment by alfnor in "On clock faces, 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV"

alfnor — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 16:25:26 +0000

This video claims 2011

https://youtu.be/j-KxS3L9bcM

New comment by alfnor in "Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011"

alfnor — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 13:01:38 +0000

999 people can have a little opsec error and 1 person can still have perfect opsec.

New comment by alfnor in "Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero"

alfnor — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:06:12 +0000

And same counter-argument: those who are more likely to abuse tools are less likely to care about the legal status of said tool (they will illegally import or DIY the tools).

New comment by alfnor in "Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero"

alfnor — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:04:36 +0000

You mean like how fentanyl is a banned substance so nobody sell- oh wait...

New comment by alfnor in "Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%"

alfnor — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:08:19 +0000

France's debt-to-GDP is lower though.

New comment by alfnor in "Writing documentation for your house"

alfnor — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:55:30 +0000

I would set up a wiki but also make regular printed backups: on-site for when the electricity is out, and off-site in case of fire.

New comment by alfnor in "How I got here"

alfnor — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 11:09:17 +0000

It isn't the worst deal because you don't have to worry about paying rent, so you can just focus 100% on getting good at whatever skillset you choose to pursue.

New comment by alfnor in "How I got here"

alfnor — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 11:03:58 +0000

Unfortunately, some parents believe in "tough love" (throw them into the ocean to learn them to swim).

New comment by alfnor in "Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document"

alfnor — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 13:20:10 +0000

Since it loads everything at once, navigation is very snappy, which I really like. I'd rather let the whole thing load once than wait every time I click an internal link.

New comment by alfnor in "Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable"

alfnor — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:46:18 +0000

Is nobody here familiar with the notorious problem that is stream-farming? People will upload white noise to Spotify and use phone farms (no idea why VMs [potentially behind VPNs] with [prepaid] Spotify accounts wouldn't work) to scam Spotify out of thousands of dollars every month.

I think every new artist account has a limit of 3000 daily streams per track before they get flagged for botting. The solution is to upload loads of shorts tracks to every artist account, since Spotify only takes streaming numbers into account, and not playtime.

This also has hidden costs for Spotify, such as the unnecessary bandwidth and storage required for all this audio no human even listens to.

New comment by alfnor in "We need scientific dissidents"

alfnor — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 12:58:56 +0000

"Babies are on average interacting with fewer people (and seeing fewer faces because of masking) than they did before the pandemic." https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/pandemic-challenges-may-...